Buckle-plate



UNITED -STATES PATENT 'OFFICE'. -f

EMMT'I C. GRANT, OF FARMER VILLAGE, YORK.

BUCKLE-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming parto! Llei-.ters Patent N o. 355,763, datedJanuary 11, 1887.

Application filed April 3 0, 1886. Serial No. 200,692. (No model.)

My invention relates to certain improvements in the manner of attachingbuckles and loops to harness-straps, and it is designed to produce asimple and inexpensive device for effectively. securing the buckle tothe strap, and which at the same time will form a fastening andbearing-plate for one or more strapretaining'loops or keepers, as willbe more fully hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in theclaim.

The invention consists of a metallic plate bent -transversely aboutmidway its length, and provided with two or more rivet-holes for thepassage of rivets when securing it to the strap. This metallic plate isapproximately the same width as the strap to which it is attached, andis secured to the under side of the same, so that a portion of it willoverlap and' protect the folded end of the strap after it is passedaround the tongue-bar of the buckle.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanyiug drawings, inWhich- Figure 1 represents a view of the reverse side of a strap with mydevice applied thereto, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal sectional view of thesame.

In the drawings, A designates a strap, to' which is attached the buckleB. A metallic plate, C, is bent slightly at a and provided with two ormore rivet-holes, by means of which and suitable rivets ,it is attachedto the 4o under side of the strap. A portion of this plate'Goverlaps andprotects the folded end of the strap in such a manner as to securelyfasten the buckle thereto. A rivet passes through the two thicknesses ofthe strap and the plate and is there clinched in the usual manner.

In arecessl between the folded end of the strap and the bent portion ofthe metallic plate C strap-retaining loops vD are secured.' This 5ospace or recess is of sufficient size to allow each of the loops anindependent and free movement.

It is manifest that my device will protectk the folded end ofthe strapand attach the re 55 taining-loops securely to the same, and at the sametime will provide a durable fastening for the buckle. f

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters 6o Patent, is-

The combination, with a strap and buckle, yf a metallic plate benttransversely about midway its length, as shown, and provided withrivetholes near each end, by means of which and rivets it is secured tothe strap so that a portion of its length will overlap and protect thefolded end of the same and securely attach the buckle thereto,substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EMME'IT Cl GRANT.

Witnesses:

ENocH CovEET, O. G. WHEELER.

